Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar #2009.01

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2008-12-29 through 2009-01-04

As of 2009-01-05 Maemo Official Platform contains 1660 (+7 this week) items,
including 383 open issues (-6 this week):

258 open bugs (+3 this week)

5 critical/blocker (no change this week)
8 "easyfix" (-1 this week)
80 "moreinfo" (+1 this week)
10 "crash" (no change this week)
10 "patch" (+1 this week)
13 reopened (+1 this week)
80 unconfirmed (no change this week)

125 open enhancements (-9 this week)

1 "easyfix" (no change this week)
6 "moreinfo" (+3 this week)
4 "patch" (no change this week)
1 reopened (-1 this week)
16 unconfirmed (-5 this week)

Top Tens

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

(24%) 2878 Very poor satellite acquisition with internal GPS
(10%) 2723 Pushing key once causes multiple repeats
(5%) 2784 Screen taps or presses go to random locations, randomly
(4%) 2850 On screen keyboard dooesn't always realise that bluetooth keyboard has been connected or disconnected
(4%) 2602 Battery drain low or empty overnight
(4%) 2640 Can no longer pair bluetooth keyboard after upgrade to OS 2008 with restore
(3%) 3026 USB state hangs at b_idle on N810 (won't allow mode change from sysfs)
(2%) 1636 Wifi Connectivity problems due to reduced wlan_sleep_timeout
(2%) 965 display is too bright when device (re)boots (+1 this week)
(2%) 2615 pdflush is hogging CPU leaving the device unresponsive (new this week)

Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

(33%) 176 Ogg Vorbis support
(10%) 3519 Integrate screen rotation patches into stock kernel and X server.
(7%) 1635 Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
(6%) 417 Support WEP with 802.1x EAP PEAP
(4%) 3099 Network printing support
(3%) 1767 trying to connect to "localhost" while offline/disconnected triggers network search
(3%) 943 Quick Standby mode (touchscreen + wireless off)
(2%) 1043 Add priority to defined wifi connections
(2%) 1100 flasher-3.0 not available for N8x0 and MacOS X (PPC & x86)
(1%) 2467 Add support for modifier keys. (new this week)

Ten hottest open bugs:

3026 USB state hangs at b_idle on N810 (won't allow mode change from sysfs)
3970 Media player doesn't detect media files / cannot restart metalayer-crawler (new this week)
3789 Old logo used in maemo release documentation (-1 this week)
2896 Busybox prevents installing full versions of tools packages (cleanly) (new this week)
2878 Very poor satellite acquisition with internal GPS (-2 this week)
3851 AGPS not helping to get a lock under clear sky (-2 this week)
3281 Sporadic lockup/reboot when USB host software releases peripheral (-2 this week)
3555 sudden auto-poweron prevents battery recharge (-2 this week)
2723 Pushing key once causes multiple repeats (-2 this week)
2735 virtual/finger keyboard has gets wrong keys when typing fast. (-2 this week)

Ten hottest open enhancements:

1521 make osso_mime and friends support "Actions" (new this week)
1623 Add FORTRAN support back into the SDKs (-1 this week)
1674 Allow external programs to retreive currently playing song information (new this week)
2041 Ability to send display output to an 802.11 capable projector. (new this week)
2264 Packages cannot be authenticated (new this week)
2948 Wifi AP list scrolls too fast (new this week)
3001 it is not possible to programmatically call virtual keyboard (-5 this week)
3048 Silence sounds while at the same time keeping audio feedback when typing (new this week)
3373 please provide uclibc/eabi toolchain for building stuff for initfs (new this week)
3726 libpng: Support for animated PNG backgrounds (new this week)

Ten oldest open bugs:

270 flasher crashes on Debian GNU/Linux PPC
305 Incorrect http_proxy/host gconf value setting (leading http://)
327 Connectivity wizard and certificate selection
360 HildonApps needlessly resize on map
503 Missing settings for Orange gprs
566 Touchscreen makes a sound but clicks aren't registered
619 Characters entered via a USB keyboard do not appear in some Maemo Apps
626 streaming AVI and MPG files fails over HTTPS
657 TN inferring WMClass from Exec is prone to breakage, it should ignore quotes
693 dhcp client fails to increment "sec" field on DISCOVER retransmissions

Ten oldest open enhancements:

176 Ogg Vorbis support
387 Impossible to specify proxy username and password
417 Support WEP with 802.1x EAP PEAP
419 please compile busybox (and /sbin/ifconfig) with ipv6 support
690 HTML redirect support for Real video streaming (+1 this week)
793 lock screen should have 'if lost' info (+1 this week)
943 Quick Standby mode (touchscreen + wireless off) (+1 this week)
1002 WPA pre-shared key should allow HEX input (+1 this week)
1013 flasher-3.0 not available for N8x0 and Linux/PowerPC (+1 this week)
1029 Locking keyboard shouldn't lock headset button (new this week)

New Items

5 bugs were opened:

3968 grep -r can output corrupt data in error message if file cannot be read
3970 Media player doesn't detect media files / cannot restart metalayer-crawler
3978 Duplicated ? entry in Russian finger keyboard
3979 When exiting offline mode, the device starts scanning for Access Points even if previously saved connections are within range
3981 liblocation possibly relies on application using the default GMainContext

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

1 enhancement was opened:

3976 Swap + (unshifted) and - (shifted). Every currency but no bar

Resolved Bugs

3 bugs were resolved "fixed":

3041 sh crashed with error "corrupted double-linked list"
3925 The "how-tos" link in current development documentation is broken
3968 grep -r can output corrupt data in error message if file cannot be read

2 bugs were resolved "invalid":

2838 Transfers speeds to MMC/SD cards is very low on N800 with OS2008
3852 Boot from mmc/usb: root ext3 filesystem gets mounted as ext2

1 bug was resolved "wontfix":

1621 gpsd installed in /usr/sbin/ instead of /usr/bin/

0 bugs were resolved "duplicate".

0 bugs were resolved "worksforme".

0 bugs were resolved "moved".

Resolved Enhancements

4 enhancements were resolved "fixed":

644 user-selectable portrait/landscape display mode
2427 Please add a crashreporter
3030 API for services to change wallpaper
3706 Deleting folders accidentally is way too easy (i.e. Modest)

4 enhancements were resolved "invalid":

3436 "Dimmed" brightness level is sometimes brighter than the actual brightness level
3654 Application menu is of fixed size and unusable with screen rotation
3666 Finger keyboard improvements
3909 64 bit (actually manual) install step omission

4 enhancements were resolved "wontfix":

2440 Please add mnemonics for main menu items on supported hardware
3138 cannot connect to broken APs that do not support RSN despite advertising it
3556 xauth should be installed by default (for SSH -X)
3735 Shutdown happens too fast after last Critical battery warning

0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate".

1 enhancement was resolved "worksforme":

2948 Wifi AP list scrolls too fast

0 enhancements were resolved "moved".

Confirmed Items

5 bugs were confirmed:

2918 Shell line editing doesn't support UTF-8, non-ASCII letters followed by Ctrl+a in XTerminal move cursor too far to the left
3957 Busybox does not support -Q which some scripts need
3958 Build/install tests done with GNU not Busybox
3968 grep -r can output corrupt data in error message if file cannot be read
3970 Media player doesn't detect media files / cannot restart metalayer-crawler

4 enhancements were confirmed: